Cotton plans and public works moves in Georgia
Georgia readers see increased Argentine exhibit funds and a Washington test on Stone Mountain granite for a Kansas City building. Farmers in Oglethorpe adopt cotton price based pay for labor, while Athens foundry faces a temporary shutdown. National and state notices cover Ex-Senator Brown will, income tax kickoff, and Colonel W A Broughton leading a Georgia cotton acreage reduction drive with county presidents to meet in March and Atlanta to host a statewide convention.
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Washington, D. C
Stone Mountain
Kansas City
Trammell
Georgia
W. A. Broughton
Jackson
Miss
Georgia Association
Colonel Broughton
American Cotton Growers’ Protective Association
State Alliance
New Orleans
Neil
Daily
Weekly Press of
South
Broughton
National Organization
Atlanta
Galveston Cotton Exchange Urges Acreage Cut to Restore Prices
Telegram from Galveston dated January 16 urges Texas and southern growers to reduce planting by 25 percent as the sole path to restore prices. Signed Junius Ru xe, president, praising the plan as urgent for price recovery. Also notes W F McLean fined for Sunday publication in Toronto World and boys discharged after selling the paper.
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Galveston Cotton Exchange
New Orleans
Galveston
Tex
Robert
New Orleans Cotton Exchange Cotton Factors’ Association
Texas
Junius Ruxce
W. F. Mclean
Toronto
Can.) World
Globe
Senate Clash Caps Day as Hill and Gorman Duel
In a dramatic Senate session, Senators Hill and Gorman engaged in a four hour clash drawing fierce exchanges amid party tensions. The day featured income tax debate, finance measures, and calls for treasury accountability with bids for new currency and naval personnel reforms.
Resignation of Illinois U S Attorney Nominee Amid Session Debates
Speaker Crisp announced John C. Black of Illinois resigns to accept appointment as United States District Attorney for the northern district of Illinois. Mr Hateh pushed the Great bill to regulate oleomargarine as a state law concern, facing defense from Mr Bynum who threatened a filibuster and sought a one hour recess. The house rejected the recess request 117 to 3 after a quorum point, as Chairman Sayres reported the sundry oil appropriation bill.
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Grosvenor
Ohio
Judiciary Committee
Ritchie
Akron
Ricks
United States Court of the
Northern District of
H. B. Payne
Stevenson Bure
McCreary
Kentucky
Forwood
Pensore
Dennis W. Mullen
United States Navy
Chili
T. Q O. Towles
House
Crisp
A. M. Dockery
Mississippi
McGann
Ilinois
Government Printing Office
Sayers
Cockrell
Texas
Kansas City, Oklahoma and Pacific
Indian Territory
Doolittle
Washington
Evertt Harbor
Henderson
Illinois
Sarah A. Clapp
Seventh
Illinois Infantry
Senate
Richardson
Tennessee
Congress
John C. Black
United States
Hateh
Bynum
Indiana
Sayres
Appropriations Committee
Jones
New Protection Order
Patriotic Order
American Knights of Protection
Order
National Assembly
Baltimore
Cyrus Bussey
Secretary of the Interior
John B. Robinson
Pennsylvania
Warner
Cologne
Department of State
Germany
Seaboard
Growth of the South Industrial Growth Report Weekly
The weekly industrial report notes active iron and coke markets, more coal production, and rising furnace activity in the South. Northern capital shows growing interest in southern cotton mills with new charters and mills planned in Athens Georgia Birmingham Alabama and Charlotte North Carolina. New plants include cotton mills flour mills iron works and various factories across multiple Southern states.
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South
Sheffield
Ala
Covingto
Poplar Association
Boott Mills
Massachusetts Mills
Lowell
Mass
Athens
Birmingham
Wilmington
N. C
Irene
D. C
Ozark
Flora
Charlotte
Shelby
Portmouth
Raleigh
Hinton
Richmound
Galvaton
Texas
Albeville
Rome
Hadnevill
Dilleboro
Bybee, Tenn
Dorismouth
Pocahontas
Pittsburg
Ashland
Hooma
Cedar Bluff
Wilson
Trenton
Tnn
Dallas
Wacco
Portsmouth
Eastland
Tex
South Pittsburg
Tenn
N.C
Louisville
Elizabethtown
Fort Worth
Biloxi
Mis
Petersbrg
Bluefield
Columbus
Tradsman
Chattanooga
State Legislatures Elect U S Senators in Joint Sessions
New Hampshire elected William E Chandler in a joint session. Massachusetts named George F Hoar as his own successor. Maine announced William P Frye s election. Colorado reelected Edward O Wolcott. Montana chose Lee Mantle and T H Carter, Mantle short term Carter long term. Nebraska elected John M Thurston in a joint session. Singer plant at South Bend with 300 operators resumed. Studebaker wagon plant laid off 1,000 workers.
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Congress
United States
New Hampshire
William E. Chandler
Massachusetts
George F. Hoar
Maine
William P. Frye
Colorado
Edward O. Wolcott
United States Senate
Lafe Pence
Montana
Lee Mantle
Butte
T. H. Carter
Helena
Mantle
Carter
Nebraska
John M. Thurston
Horribly Mangled Explosion Destroys Butte Fire Crew
A Butte Montana disaster after a warehouse fire triggered three blasts within fifteen minutes. Nearly 75 to 100 people dead or crippled, with 20 tons of giant powder and about thirty tons of explosives involved. Investigations will seek responsibility in both public and mercantile sectors.
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Butte
Montana
Kenyon Connell
Butte Hardware Company
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Indicted as Ku Klux in Murray County murder case
Five prominent Murray county citizens John Edmondson Tom Wright ex deputy marshal W A Hannah George Terry and Merrill Wood were indicted by a U S grand jury in Atlanta for murder and conspiracy. The group, believed to be Ku Klux members, included Judge John Edmondson a leading local landowner who posted a $5 000 bond and returned home.
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Murray County
United States Grand Jury
Atlanta
John Edmondson
Tom Wright
United States
W. A. Hannah
George Terry
Merrill Wood
Ku-Knux Band
Eximondson
Victoria's New Governor Chosen in Australian Dispatch
A London dispatch reports Lord Brassey has accepted the governorship of Victoria Australia succeeding the Earl of Hopetoun. The change marks a new imperial appointment with Brassey assuming duties in the southern colony.
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Victoria
London Ceble
Brassey Haa
Australia
Earl of Hopetoan
Faure Wins French Presidency on Second Ballot
Versailles reports Felix Faure elected president of France by the second ballot with 430 votes to 361 amid uproar. The assembly, 300 senators and 584 deputies, adjourned after the first round with Brisson and others contending.
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Versailles
Faure
National Assembly
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber
M. Chillemel LaCour
M. Henri Michili
M. Henri Brisson
M. Felix Faure
M. Waldeck Rensseau
M. Chalemel-Lacour
M. Waldeck- Rousseau
M. Fafre
Brissonites
Challemel-Lacour
Brisson
Felix Faure
France
Social Republic
M. Thiers
Marshal MacMahon
Jules Grevy
M. Carnot
Lyons
M. Casimir-Perier
Senator Gordon Warns on Income Tax Compliance
A Washington special reports Senator Gordon of Georgia cautioned that withholding a requested appropriation will not stop income tax collection. He warned taxpayers who delay returns face 50 percent higher taxes and urged obeying the law regardless of congressional funding.
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Congress
Paul Trammell
Internal Revenue
Washington
Gordon
Georgia
Five Thousand Trolly Car Men Strike in Brooklyn
Five thousand trolly car workers in Brooklyn quit at 5 a m after employers refused to run cars. Workers cite state law on ten hour days within twelve hours and demand adherence or pay of 2 25 for a twelve hour day, with overtime concerns and lunch breaks.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Lave Ware
Senate Confirms Ware as Indian Affairs Assistant Commissioner
The senate confirmed A. G. Ware postmaster at West Point Virginia as assistant commissioner of Indian affairs. The president sent to the senate correspondence on Japanese spies and noted consular limits in China. Debs case action and currency reform talks occupy the Capitol.
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Senate
A. G.ware
West Point
Secretary of State
China
Wm. L. Scruggs
Venezuela
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Congress
Great Britain
British Guiana
Supreme Court
Washington, D. C
Fuller
United States
Eugene YV. Debs
Fire destroys Mercer sugar house near Lecompte Louisiana
The sugar house and refinery of Jo seph Mercer near Lecompte La was totally destroyed by fire. The new building burned with two thousand barrels of sugar. Estimated loss 130000 dollars with 74000 dollars recovered by insurance from northern and foreign companies.
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Joseph Mercer
Lecompte
Gold Withdrawals Shrink New York Subtreasury Reserve
Assistant Treasurer Jordan in New York telegraphed that $1,250,000 in gold left the New York subtreasury on Tuesday with $750,000 for export and $590,000 by banks. The move reduces the gold reserve to $76,081,799.
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Jordan
New York
Treasury
Distinguished Judge James Taylor Jones Dies in Alabama
Judge James Taylor Jones of the first judicial circuit and former congressman from Alabama's first district died Tuesday morning in Demopolis after a lingering illness. He was fifty five years old.
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James Taylor Jones
First Judicial Circuit
Congress
Demopolis
Ala
Vest's bill would end national banks and coinage limits
Senator Vest introduces a sweeping plan to destroy treasury notes and bullion certificates, issue gold and silver coin notes as substitutes, cap denominations, and repeal all national bank authority. The act sets Treasury to redeem notes with gold or silver, transfers bond assets, and fixes silver bullion coinage with seigniorage to fund expenses.
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Vest
Senate
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
National Bank Act
Mint
New York
French Cabinet Condemns Perier Resignation Amid Political Turmoil
Paris dispatches report ministers meeting after Casimir Perier resigns as president. Dupuy's cabinet gathers to weigh the changed situation and socialist deputies plan their course for choosing a successor. Newspapers condemn Perier's withdrawal as cowardly.
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Paris
Casimir Perier
M. Dupuy
Chamber of Deputies
M. Casimir-Perier
Desperate gang capture and gold shipment rumors
A New York special reports the La Champagne planned gold shipment of 809000 by Hoskier Wood Co reduced to 500000 while Lazard Freres sent 1600000 totaling 2100000 on the French vessel. Bill Cook the train robber was captured near Fort Staton Lincoln county New Mexico by Sheriff Perry of Chayese county.
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New York
Hoskier, Wood & Co
la Champagne
Lazard Freres
Bill Cook
Fort Staton
Lincoln County
New Mexico
Perry
Chayese County
Water Rising in Dig Jake Colliery Entrapment at Hanley
A London dispatch reports noon water rise in Dig Jake colliery at Hanley trapping about ninety to one hundred miners. The situation is dire with fears that many men have perished.
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London Cable Dispatch
Jake
Hanley
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